Lanke Chess Edge

The creaking sound of the fence gate at the head of the village was still behind him, and the old man who supported Ji Yuan did not let go, and led Ji Yuan directly to walk a dozen steps in, to a house whose outer wall was painted with earthen mortar.

"Sir, beware, the threshold is high, feet high!"

The high threshold is not a joke, it is really high, vaguely feeling that his own calf is high, Ji Yuan took advantage of the situation and stepped into the house with the old man.

This house is not like a normal house, because there is only one room, neither a kitchen nor an inner hall, only a table with an oil lamp on it, four benches, and two beds beside it.

‘Well, more like a makeshift dormitory! '

When he arrived indoors, the old man finally let go of his hand and beckoned Ji Yuan to sit down.

"Sir, please sit down. The old man's surname is Xu. I don't know where Mr. Gao's family lives?"

While speaking, he also took the initiative to move a stool to facilitate Ji Yuan to sit down. The sound of the stool feet rubbing against the ground drew a colorless thread in Ji Yuan's heart.

"Okay, thank you old man, my surname is Ji, and I'm from Ning'an County."

Ji Yuan touched the edge of the table and sat down while talking, and put the burden and umbrella on the table. The old man at the side took one from a stack of dishes that were overturned by the table, and lifted the earthen pot beside the table to Ji Yuan. The edge pours water.

"Oh, people from Ning'an, we generally don't welcome strangers casually here at night. As the old saying goes, there are shadows and warm people who are alive, and you can't look back at night. Are you kidding me?"

The sound of tea being poured into the bowl is crisp and clear, and when the bowl is filled up, there is a little splash.

"Sir, please drink water."

"It's okay, be careful, there is no big mistake, um, thank you!"

Thanks again, Ji Yuan took a sniff and drank it without thinking about anything, at this time the old man suddenly asked him.

"Sir, are you a ghost?"

"puff……"

Ji Yuan took a sip of tea and sprayed it out.

"Cough cough cough... the old man was joking, of course I'm not a ghost!"

The sudden hard-core question from Nima made Ji Yuan choke, coughing for a while, and the old man next to him apologized again and again.

"Don't blame, sir, don't blame, sir. The old man has a bad memory. He suddenly thought of something, and subconsciously wanted to confirm it. It's really that our place is too biased. Few people come here alone at night."

Ji Yuan coughed a few times to run his spiritual energy, smoothed his trachea, and asked helplessly and curiously.

"What are you confirming? Didn't the old man pass his pulse?"

"What you say is what you say, it's just that some people don't even know they're not alive when they're dead. This kind of person is the most difficult to tell. You need to tell them in front of him. We call this method the 'Mandarin Duck Method'. "

'What strange name? Ocean? Resentment? It can't be a mandarin duck, right? '

Tossing out the thoughts in his mind, Ji Yuan asked the old man directly.

"Old man, do you often get haunted by ghosts?"

Otherwise, why are you so nervous, but as long as it's not a ghost, it's not a big problem.

"A few years ago, I did meet someone looking for a dead ghost. We are a village in the wilderness for dozens of miles. Everyone is on guard, afraid that something strange will come here, but ghosts are okay, as the saying goes. It is said that people are three times afraid of ghosts and ghosts are seven times afraid of people. There are so many people in the village who are full of courage..."

The old man paused, hesitated for a moment and continued to speak.

"It's just that we've had trouble with beautiful snakes before, and it's nighttime this season, so everyone can't go out if they can't go out!"

"Beautiful snake?"

Ji Yuanxin frowned, could it be a demon?

"Well, it is said that it is a big snake with a beautiful head, and it likes to trick young men into eating it."

"Beautiful head? Can you deceive people? Don't lie to me, old man!"

Ji Yuan took a breath, and subconsciously thought of Niu Kuishan's Tiger Lu, is this something ordinary people can guard against?

The light of the oil lamp in the house flickered, but the room was still dim, and the flickering light seemed to be a mood of predestination.

The monsters and monsters that can speak are all virtuous, they have already refined their bones, and they are not small monsters that will be killed by an iron rake and hoe if they are not careful, and if this snake really has a human head...

Ji Yuan didn't dare to think about it anymore, and even had the urge to leave, but if he went outside... his chest was tight.

There is no way this county doesn't have a City God, right? Do you still care about this place?

"Hey, many people know about this. It made our village panic for a long time before. How could I deceive you? Let's not talk about it..."

Speaking of this, the old man got up from the stool on one side and went to make another bed.

"Sir, my family is still in the inner village. The house at the head of the village is temporarily lived in by people who take care of the entrance of the village. Please spend the night here today. If you want to go to the latrine at night, you can wake up the old man and I will help you there. of."

"By the way, are you hungry, sir? If you are hungry, I'll get you something to eat?"

"No, I'm not hungry!"

While refusing, Ji Yuan went over to make the bed together, smelling the smell on it, it should be often drying, but even if the smell is heavy, it doesn't matter, he doesn't really care about it, and he doesn't care.

"Wow woof woof woof woof woof woof..."

There were bursts of dog barking outside, and a few curses. Ji Yuan listened carefully, and seemed to be able to hear words such as "it's unpalatable" and "unlucky".

Ji Yuan saw that the old man on the side didn't respond, and temporarily put aside some uneasiness in his mind, and asked about his journey.

"Old man, what is the name of your village, and where is it located in Shunbao County? What is the best way to go to Jiao County?"

"Shunbao County?"

Hearing the old man's doubtful voice, Ji Yuan felt a little bad.

"Mr. Elder, you're going a little way off the road. This is Shanghegou Village, which is already the northeast corner of Suiyuan County. It's already past Baoshun."

"ah!?"

'Suiyuan County? How the hell did I run across two counties? '

The paperweight map is fine, but if the lines are too fine, the scale of the map is difficult to grasp. Only through this condensed map can we understand the general context of each boundary. The thirteen prefectures of Dazhen have been stuffed beyond the limit. A county in There is only a small dot on the picture, and the engraving of a very small name to mark the official path is already a magical work of Wu Juan, and the sense of distance can only be reflected from the land of a house.

'So I underestimated the power of my feet? '

I'm afraid that when he chased the three fast horses with light kung fu, he had unknowingly overrun it!

‘Drag racing accident! '

Ji Yuan, who was lamenting in his heart, hurriedly continued to ask the old man.

"Then if I'm going to Chunhui Mansion, does the old man think it's better to go back the same way or choose another way?"

"Well, old man, I haven't run so far before, how about this, Mr. Ji rests first, and tomorrow morning you can ask the merchants who are also staying in the village. I heard that they will eventually go to Duming's mansion city. Maybe they know how to go. !"

"Hey...that's the only way!"

I really miss mobile navigation...

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Late at night……

People in the village went to bed earlier than those in the city, and they didn't sleep at night. The old man in the room was already snoring, and there were occasional dogs barking from the village outside.

Ji Yuan lay on the bed with his eyes closed, but he did not fall asleep. On the one hand, it was because the snoring beside him was too obvious in the quiet night, especially in his ears; Plan your route.

"Wow woof... woof woof... woof woof..."

"Wow woof woof..."

The barking of dogs suddenly became intensive, and Ji Yuan opened his eyes almost at the same moment he heard it. He could hear many village dogs gathered in a certain place, barking in one direction together.

After waiting for a while, the barking of the dog gradually subsided.

Old dogs that have been kept for a long time are often very spiritual. Ji Yuan had seen this once in Ning'an County, and he had heard the old man say that dogs have psychic eyes in his previous life, so Ji Yuan was still a little concerned about the sound of dogs barking.

'I'm a little flustered...'

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By the river outside the village, long black shadows slid across the ground, but crawled slowly in an S-shape in the coastal area, and the dense scales rubbed against stones and branches, making a screeching sound.

Somewhere, the black shadow raised his body and looked towards the village, revealing his thick body and white scales on his abdomen.

"Hiss~~~hiss~~~"

After standing there for a while, spitting out the letter, there was a burst of violent barking in the village, but in fact, those domestic dogs often just approached the fence and barked, but had no intention of rushing out.

"Hiss~~~"

The big snake lowered its body, and its slightly bloated body twisted a few times along the shore.

After a "plop", mixed with the sound of water waves being pushed away, a long black shadow slid into the river, and some small boats on the side were also shaking because of the ripples on the water surface.